CompTIA Linux+ Exam Prep! [IN PROGRESS]

Hi. I'm Shawn Powers, and I am here to help

you learn everything. Do what you love,

and most importantly, be kind. But more

specifically, we are going to start the

Linux Plus series, learning to get the CompTIA Linux Plus certification.

This is a little bit of a late start because

I had horrible hardware problems that are

a thing of the past. That was me knocking

on wood. Hopefully, that holds true. But I want to give you a quick intro.

This video that you're watching now is the

temporary intro. This will be deleted

once the course is done. This is kind of like, "I want to get us started," but I'll

have a better intro when we're done.

So, temporary intro. Here we go. Now, when I'm

demonstrating all the various things, I'm going to try to use two systems.

I'm using Ubuntu Mate and Rocky Linux 9, which is kind of like

the new CentOS. CentOS is no longer a

direct byte-for-byte copy of Red Hat

Enterprise Linux. So that's what Rocky Linux tries to do. So I'm going to use

Rocky Linux for the Red Hat stuff, Ubuntu

Mate for the Debian/Ubuntu stuff, and for the

stuff that doesn't matter, I'll probably

default to Ubuntu because it's just what I really like to use all the time.

But anyway, I am using VirtualBox, which

is completely free. I have also added

the addon extension package so that I can use

RDP--what is it? RDP--to remotely watch them

because while you can use VirtualBox to,

you know, control, like, with their little window, like, their little visual window

to actually use it, it really messes with my recording.

So I like to use remote desktop, and that

requires you to put the add-ons in, which, if

you're doing it for your own personal use, that's perfectly fine to do.

So, using RDP allows me to set up a tabbed

interface so I can go between them while they're running. It's actually really

super cool. I will show you that. Actually, I'll show you that now. And this is a

little bit hard to see because, you know,

I try to make it as tiny as possible up on the top of the screen so that it

doesn't take up space. But this is a little tabbed interface up here.

If you see at the upper left, I'm switching

between them. And this is just a program.

It's a free program. I think it's even open source. It's called--what is it

called?--RDTabs. I'll put a link in the description of the video below if you

want to try it, but it's just a really

great way to get the tabbed interface for

remote desktop stuff. And then I'm just connecting to my VirtualBox, right

here on my own personal computer. Alright?

So it's something you can replicate and install on your own and follow along

just so you know what I'm using, and you'll be able to use the same thing.

I also recommend that while you do stuff,

before you make any major changes, I recommend taking a snapshot in

VirtualBox. That's just so you can roll

back if you mess something up. I do that

because I mess stuff up. I don't always leave the mess-ups in the video, but

sometimes I do. Anyway, snapshots are a

great way to give you a spot you can

roll back to in time because it's just that--

it's a snapshot of the system. So any

changes you make get reverted to the

snapshot when you go back. Now, when it

comes to the actual material, the actual

objectives, I'm getting straight from

CompTIA, the new revision that came out on

July 12, 2022, and it looks like this. This is just a

snapshot of the PDF file that includes the various objectives, and it's

broken up into sections like Section 1.0 is system management.

Section 1.1 here is "Summarize Linux Fundamentals."

Now, also, I do have a course, Linux Essentials, that will give you all this

stuff and even more. So if you're not comfortable with Linux at all,

I recommend you look at that course.

I'll put a link to my Linux Essentials course up in the corner, which

is actually a certification you could get. But even if you just want to get

more familiar with Linux before diving

into Linux Plus, that will help you out.

But what I wanted to show you here, yes, this is the objectives. I'll put a link

to the objectives in the video description here as well. But it's just

broken up into these big chunks like

Section 1.1, but this is going to be a

lot of video. And sometimes it gets

monotonous if they're super long videos

and a long time between videos if I have

to make, like, you know, an hour-and-a-half long video. So I plan on

breaking them up into chunks. Like, Section 1.1

will probably become 1.1.1, 1.1.2, 1.1.3, 1.1.4, and 1.1.5, and they're going to loosely

follow the chunks, right? The little

bold bullet points there. I'm just going

to break it up into sections. I mean, this

isn't rocket science here. It's just that if you see, like, 1.1.3 and you're like,

"That is not in the objective list at all,"

it's just 1.1 that I've broken up into multiple pieces. I just wanted to make

that clear before I start. That's what

we're doing. So when you follow along in

your objective list—again, that's in the description so you can download it--

you'll know where I am and why I named

it the way I named it. Now, if I make any changes to the standard VirtualBox

networking, like an isolated network to set

up DHCP, I don't really remember all the

things that we're going to cover in this

Linux Plus course. But if I make network

changes, I'll point them out. VirtualBox

allows you to do some things, but I'll make sure that I point out that I've

done something behind the scenes that

makes my setup work differently than the

setup that you can install and follow

along with yourself. Now, a couple of

other housekeeping things. I was

thinking about doing a live stream every

so often. Do you think that would be

beneficial, like, during the creation of

the course and maybe even after it's

done? Every so often, have a live stream

where people could ask questions, I could

respond, we could just, you know, shoot the breeze, whatever it might take.

If that sounds like it might be interesting to you, how often do you

think that should happen? What sounds like a reasonable amount of time

for questions or interests, or how long before people forget how

horrible the last one was, so they might

come to the next one? Let me know what

you think might be an appropriate time

frame, if it even seems like a good idea

to do a live stream at all. And if you want to help along the way,

please subscribe to my channel. Hit that notification

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That way, you'll get notified when the

videos come out. And even more

importantly, if you know anybody who

might benefit from a free, complete, no-nothing-hidden--I mean, I'm giving

this all away for free--Linux Plus course, please send them to my channel

so that they can follow along too. The YouTube algorithm is great for

connecting people to the stuff they want,

but nothing beats an actual firsthand

recommendation. So, if you want to help me

be able to create for more people,

I would appreciate it, and that's something

you can do. So, I'm going to stop this video,

and hopefully, before today is out, the first actual video of the course will

drop. And remember, this video is going

away once the course is complete. So, if

you're watching this, you're part of the

elite few who get to watch this video,

which will only be here until the course

is done. It's a really weird elite status

to have, but you have it. I'll see you in the next video. Bye.